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There is a growing community of young water tech innovators in Canada addressing environmental issues in freshwater, and they meet here! From water pollution to water infrastructure, they make a positive impact for the health of freshwater in Canada.

 

Sentiom

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Mathieu Lachaîne, François Lachaîne, George Kiorpelidis

About the Startup

Techno Protection Québec protège les infrastructures métalliques contre la corrosion pour faire augmenter leur durée de vie et diminuer l'empreinte écologique.

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Techno Protection

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Léandre Veilleux

About the Startup

Techno Protection Québec protects metal infrastructures against corrosion to extend their lifespan and reduce their ecological footprint.

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Bloomshed

Western Canada 2021

Calgary, AB, Canada

Team

Trina Go Listanco, Lilian Wang Huang, Lealyn San Juan, Endre Balogh

About the Startup

ISLA O. is designing and developing aquatic + island infrastructures for bioremediation and circular economy using recycled and recyclable construction materials.

Sustainable Development Goals

6 - Clean Water & Sanitation

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Drinkable Water Solutions

Atlantic Canada 2020

Halifax, NS, Canada

Team

Matthew Mizzi, Anita Taylor, Robert Afari

About the Startup

Developing the SIP mechanism and a service to assist private well owners with water testing to reduce known barriers and increase testing of well water quality.

EXO Tactik

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Stéphane Bouvier, Carole Riopel

About the Startup

EXO Tactik est un opérateur de drones qui se spécialise en sécurité publique et en services municipaux pour supporter l'administration publique et les premiers répondants afin qu'ils accomplissent davantage pour les citoyens.

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EcoWater

Western Canada 2021

Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Team

Khaled Benis, Shahab Minaei, Mohsen Asadi

About the Startup

EcoWater minimizes the release of chemicals of emerging concern into water bodies. Their EcoModel provides a treatment system with a risk analysis and helps to optimize the system to achieve the highest removal rate possible. EcoFilters, derived from agricultural residue, remove the remaining pollutants.

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O-Tech

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

Rivière des Mille Îles 2021

Québec, QC, Canada

Team

Alae Benguit, Yassine Ouarda

About the Startup

O-Tech developed O-Plast, a greywater treatment system designed to eliminate microplastics in water coming mainly from commercial laundry. The solution combines membrane filtration with electrooxidation which results in the complete degradation of microplastics.

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Ozero Solutions

British Columbia 2020

Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Team

Matys Tessier, Olivier Harpin, Maxime Guay, Benjamin Farley, Christophe Morin, Olivier Liberge

About the Startup

Developed the first washing station that fully decontaminates sport boats, including internal plumbing, to prevent the spread of invasive aquatic species such as zebra and quagga mussels in lakes and rivers.

Clean Catch Baits

Atlantic Canada 2020

Halifax, NS, Canada

Team

Guillermo Villarreal De Lara, Katherine VanZutphen, Robel Berhane

About the Startup

Manufactured first-ever soft bait fishing lure out of a unique organic biopolymer solution which is 100% biodegradable and PVC-free, allowing anglers to practice their sport without worry and contributes to the safety of fish and all aquatic life.

Blue Lion Labs

AquaHacking 2017

Kitchener, ON, Canada

Team

Jason Deglint

About the Startup

Uses artificial intelligence tools to identify and track the amount of sea lice in water to allow aquaculture producers to be warned of possible outbreaks, allowing them to take preventative measures to protect their stock.

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RegenEAU

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

David Pineault, Marianne Ricard, Jean-Michel Rochette, Michael Pelletier

About the Startup

RegenEAU accélère l'électrification efficace des logements en proposant des solutions innovantes en matière de mécanique du bâtiment. Sa solution récupère la chaleur des eaux usées domestiques.

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BrewSonic

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Hugo Pizon

About the Startup

BroueSonique Inc. intègre une nouvelle méthode d'extraction de saveurs dans la fabrication de la bière permettant d'économiser l'utilisation de matière première telles que le houblon et l'eau.

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Typha Co.

Lake Winnipeg 2020

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Team

Julien Koga, Alec Massé

About the Startup

Developed eco-packaging products made from fibres extracted from cattails which compete economically with plastics while maintaining a high level of environmental responsibility and help decrease impacts of eutrophication to Lake Winnipeg.

O-Clair Environment

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Isabelle Mongeon, Pierre Mongeon

About the Startup

O'Clair Environnement crée des outils de communication et de gestion informatiques communes et partagés par les gestionnaires de l’eau, afin d’assurer l’application des lois et des réglementations de façon efficace.

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CANN Forecast

AquaHacking 2016

Montreal, QC, Canada

Team

Naysan Saran, Nicolas Fortin St-Gelais

About the Startup

Developed artificial intelligence models to support municipal decision-making: InteliSwim, a tool that more reliably predicts recreational water quality, and InteliPipes, a tool to help identify water pipes vulnerable to leaks and breaks.

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Prevu 3D

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Nicolas Morency, François-Olivier Lavery

About the Startup

RegenEAU accélère l'électrification efficace des logements en proposant des solutions innovantes en matière de mécanique du bâtiment. Sa solution récupère la chaleur des eaux usées domestiques.

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Klorofila

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Loïc Lajoumard de Bellabre

About the Startup

Klorofila permet aux petites fermes intérieures de développer efficacement leur production de feuilles vertes grâce à l'utilisation de technologies et d'innovations stratégiques.

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Sentiom

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Mathieu Lachaîne, François Lachaîne, George Kiorpelidis

About the Startup

Sentiom Inc's mission is to digitally transform existing multi-residential real estate into intelligent, sustainable and caring buildings, to maximize their environmental, social and economic impact.

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Pergamon Perceptive Technologies

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Mohand Amroun

About the Startup

Pergamon Perceptive offre des solutions pour les applications HVAC, Industries 4.0, Smart agriculture, Smart cities, Oil & Gas et d'autres applications verticales qui garantissent des données précises pour une meilleure prise de décision.

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GAPSS

British Columbia 2020

Kelowna, BC , Canada

Team

Jacob Sol, Cole White-Robinson, Jayden Wong, Graeme Kumagai, Rudransh Kumar, Olivier Liberge

About the Startup

Offers an easy-to-install, retrofittable, and affordable stormwater decontamination product which removes hydrocarbons while promoting sedimentation in addition to the collection of real-time data using a built-in sensor unit to inform municipal monitoring networks

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O'land Stations

AquaEntrepreneur Montréal 2021-2022

AquaHacking 2019

Montreal, QC, Canada

Team

Rachel Labbé-Bellas

About the Startup

Offering portable and sustainable water bottle refill and touchless hand-washing stations for large public spaces and events to reduce plastic pollution from single-use items.

Marine Way

Atlantic Canada 2020

Toronto, ON, Canada

Team

Devanshi Kukadia, Lisa Chen, Michael Chen, Wenzhi Guo

About the Startup

Developing an application to report lost fishing gear through a simplified lost gear reporting process for use by at-sea commercial fishers

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Circulus Agtech

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Olivier Corbeil, David Leroux

About the Startup

Circulus Agtech utilise des rejets agricoles, notamment du fumier animal pour en faire un fertilisant durable. Le fertilisant Circulus favorise une absorption rapide dans les plantes, limitant les pertes en GES et l’écoulement des pathogènes dans les cours d'eau.

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The SIP Project

Western Canada 2021

Kelowna, BC, Canada

Team

Elana Wood, Yosamin Esanullah, Yamen Shehab

About the Startup

The SIP Project developed a mobile filtration system in the form of a gravity filter backpack. Water goes into the top of the backpack and filters through three levels of treatment. At the spout, the water is tasteless, clear, and decontaminated.

Bello Solutions

AquaHacking 2019

Montreal, QC, Canada

Team

Marc Schaal, Clément Bouland

About the Startup

Development of a water purifier that eliminates contaminants and allows for a customized re-mineralization of tap water, with the goal of increasing public perception of tap water and deterring from the use of bottled water

WaterShed Monitoring

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

Québec, QC, Canada

Team

Sonja Behmel, Hervé Dandjinou, Rüdiger Behmel, Christian Saraïlis

About the Startup

WaterShed Monitoring helps organizations that withdraw, distribute, treat and discharge water to optimize their operations through better collection, management and use of water-related data.

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Water Rangers

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

AquaHacking 2015

Val-des-Monts, QC, Canada

Team

Kat Kavanagh

About the Startup

A water testing kit made available to citizens to enable them to easily and quickly collect water quality data from samples taken from their local watercourses and share this data on an interactive online platform.

EcoFilter Tek

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Farhad Farnia

About the Startup

Ecofilter Tek est un développeur de membranes haute performance utilisant une nouvelle technologie dans différents secteurs tels que l'alimentation, le traitement des eaux usées et la pharmacie.

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ChemBrains

AquaEntrepreneur Montréal 2021-2022

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Team

Aziz Gherrou

About the Startup

Offers clean tech solutions for water treatment and recycling, including a closed-loop system for the recovery, treatment, disinfection and reuse of water in splash pads in recreational public parks. Chembrains' technologies are fully automated and provide continuous water quality monitoring.

AITera inc.

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Daniel Fortin

About the Startup

AITera propose, grâce à l’intelligence artificielle, des solutions socialement et économiquement durables pour la décontamination des sols et des eaux souterraines, assurant un approvisionnement sécuritaire.

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ILOS

Rivière des Mille Îles 2021

Montreal, QC, Canada

Team

Samuel Cante, Jean-Christophe Gosselin, Maël Lahmar

About the Startup

ILOS is developing a multifunctional floating platform, allowing for both new forms of ecotourism and the ability to measure water quality in real-time with the use of probes.

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Hoola One Technologies

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

Québec, QC, Canada

Team

Jean-David Lantagne, Jean-Félix Tremblay, Anne-Sophie Lapointe

About the Startup

Provides solutions for soil decontamination from plastic pollution to preserve and restore affected ecosystems.

Ecotime Solutions

AquaEntrepreneur Montréal 2021-2022

Rivière des Mille Îles 2021

Saint-Constant, QC, Canada

Team

Timothé Roy-Bouchard, Eddy Dureuil

About the Startup

Ecotime Solutions developed Oasis, an all-in-one rainwater harvesting and distribution system, which allows for the innovative use of rainwater in buildings and reduces the need to consume drinking water resources for non-potable uses.

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EMO3

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

Québec, QC, Canada

Team

Dave Gilbert

About the Startup

Offers innovative and environmentally friendly ozone technology solutions for air and water purification

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X-Telia

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Eric Bourbeau

About the Startup

X-Telia rendre les villes plus intelligentes grâce à une solution de gestion des compteurs d'eau infonuagique qui permet de faire une gestion proactive de la distribution d'eau potable.

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WaterPuris

AquaHacking 2018

Kitchener, ON, Canada

Team

Robert Liang, John Persic, Norman Zhou

About the Startup

Applying cutting-edge technologies in materials science such as advanced oxidation processes and membrane aerated biofilm reactors to treat endocrine disrupting chemicals as a solution for decentralized wastewater treatment and reuse.

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Smartrek Technologies Inc.

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville, QC, Canada

Team

Martin Carrier

About the Startup

Offers sensors to monitor various water parameters such as temperature, pressure, chemical composition and water flow, plus a dashboard to synthesize the data into usable information.

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Equator Studios

AquaHacking 2017

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Team

Rebecca Swabey, Patrick Sapinski

About the Startup

Provides open and affordable data mapping software to environmental consulting firms, students and government, which includes high-resolution topographic data and lidar surveys with centimetre accuracy.

BioAlert Solutions

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Etienne Lemieux

About the Startup

BioAlert Solutions propose une biotechnologie innovante pour détecter les agentes pathogènes dans les eaux industrielles et commerciales.

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Clean Nature

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2022-2023

AquaHacking 2019

Quebec, QC, Canada

Team

Anne Carabin, Claudie Ratté-Fortin, Patricia Gomez

About the Startup

Developed guIA, an innovative smart decision-making tool that allows for more efficient distribution of road salt in winter to help reduce costs and environmental impacts

Geosapiens

AquaHacking 2018

Quebec, QC, Canada

Team

Hachem Agili

About the Startup

Developed E-NUNDATION, a web-based platform that allows for improved understanding and management of flood risks for citizens, municipalities, and companies through the simulation and prediction of flood impacts.

Technologies Ecofixe inc.

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Marisol Labrecque

About the Startup

Technologies Ecofixe se spécialise en traitement biologique des eaux usées. Elle propose des systèmes économiques, écologiques et écoénergétiques pour les municipalités et les industries.

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LaSIR Nutrient Technology

Lake Winnipeg 2020

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Team

Meagan Smith, Bentley Turner

About the Startup

Offers NuFinder, an agronomic decision support tool for on-site soil analysis to reduce phosphorus runoff which applies ATR infrared spectroscopy techniques and the collection of multiple soil samples without the use of added reagents to reduce the cost per sample

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Techno Protection

AquaEntrepreneur Québec 2023-2024

QC, Canada

Team

Léandre Veilleux

About the Startup

Techno Protection Québec protège les infrastructures métalliques contre la corrosion pour faire augmenter leur durée de vie et diminuer l'empreinte écologique.

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